Posted on 12/18/2020 1:04:40 PM PST by PoliticallyShort
Much of what passes for anti-racist education is a poisonous exercise in caricature and bigotry, with troubling consequences for prosaic educational activities like teacher training, grading, and research.
Take, for instance, the anti-racist materials that schools are using to train K-12 teachers. The materials used by the Denver Public Schools teach educators that “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective,” distinguishing between “good/bad” and “right/wrong,” and valuing an “emphasis on being polite” are all distinctive characteristics of white culture. The same is true of the “individualist” mindset that “if something is going to get done right, I have to do it.” In Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the nation’s wealthiest counties, the Dismantling Racism Workbook used to train teachers this summer highlighted “15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture,” including a weird admixture of positive & negative stereotypes, including “perfectionism,” “progress is bigger, more,” “right to comfort,” & “defensiveness.”
Anti-racists also want to end traditional grading practices, which they deem “profoundly discriminatory.” Cornelius Minor, a leading “Grading Equity Advocate,” is an author and speaker who has worked with Columbia Teachers College and the International Literacy Association. He seeks to dismantle “pernicious” grading practices, such as teachers reserving A’s for students who demonstrate understanding of the subject matter. This, he explains, is because one “cannot separate grading practices” from “the history of classism, sexism, racism, and ableism in the United States.” To Minor, a teacher’s inability to perceive a student’s knowledge is evidence of the teacher’s racism, not the student’s ignorance. While Minor is fuzzy regarding the remedies, he is sure that teachers must abandon problematic ideologies such as expecting that students “should know” things.
When it comes to facilitating discussions about race, a favored practice among anti-racist educators is, ironically, to sort students and staff by race.
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Every time I see one of these horror stories about the government schools, I ask myself what it will take for parents to get their kids out. Will white parents really let their children be told that they are horrible people because of the color of their skin? Will white kids have to wear some kind of emblem on their clothing to show their shame? How do you think minority school kids are going to treat the white kids now? It’s not going to be pretty.
They are teaching white children that they are growing up in a toxic environment and being brainwashed by their parents, and that they need to be reeducated about what the world ‘is really like’, Next they will be gettign the kids to turn in their own parents for ‘crimes against humanity’ for voicing opinions about anything the left stands for
Wish more folks could manage to pull their kids from these brainwashing indoctrination camps called public schools-
This is what comes of living in a land of plenty; people who don’t have two brain cells in-a-row survive to torment the people who made food so cheap and plentiful that they survived.
The first thing all these anti-racists do is get people to start judging folks by the color of their skin. Otherwise they wouldn’t have any job security.
... and then too often became “professors” and got schools to make their weird ideologically driven classes mandatory, thereby letting them force students to buy their books that no one would otherwise ever read.
Erm, why not?
Oh, I get it. You're saying that acknowledging academic performance irrespective of background or pedigree is a Western thing. You could be right about that.
“Non racists” who obsess about race are the worst bigots of all. One of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, accuse the enemy of what you are. Projection. At least whatever’s left of the klan are honest about it.
Do grades really do that? Could you devise a course that would be so easy that every child would pass? Could you devise one so hard that every child would fail? Of course, we all could, so grades have nothing to to with education or accomplishment, but instead are a way of sorting children into winners and losers at an early age. If the goal were to educate children, then each child would move along at his or her own pace.
Why is it that when a kid fails, it is never the teacher’s fault? It is always something wrong with the kid, whether it’s not trying or now, being labeled with some disability. Schools are not set up for the benefit of the children. They are run for the benefit of the school.
>>Anti-racists also want to end traditional grading practices, which they deem “profoundly discriminatory.”
As an engineer, I look on this with horror. If you like bridges that stay up, airplanes that don’t fall out of the sky, and the like, you should too.
It’s turned ugly... very much like the crap white southerns in the Jim Crow South did. That kind of racial hatred has no place in our country. The black community has problems...and this bullsh*t isn’t making things better.
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